[Cialug] Remote Access

[David Champion]

If you're using VNC over untrusted networks (i.e. the internet) you 
should tunnel it thru ssh - as it has no encryption built in - someone 
may be able to sniff your vnc password. Also, if your doing this, you 
only need to forward your ssh port thru the router.

-dc

Daniel A. Ramaley wrote:
> What type of access do you need? A terminal window, or a full X session, 
> or something else? For just a terminal window, i'd recommend 
> downloading PuTTY (Google for "putty" and it should be in the first 2 
> hits) and using it to SSH to your Linux box. You'll need to make sure 
> your Linux box has a routable IP, or forward the SSH port (TCP/22) from 
> a routable IP to the Linux box.
> 
> X is a bit more complicated; i've never needed to go from MS Windows to 
> X Windows. There are projects such as Cygwin that will let you set up 
> an X server on Windows and then from there you'd be able to connect to 
> the Linux box and run applications. A possibly easier solution would be 
> to run VNC on the Linux box and then connect from Windows with a VNC 
> viewer. I've done that before, though with Linux or OS X as the client 
> rather than Windows. It gives you a full desktop, and is much more 
> responsive than X over SSH. To use VNC to go from one Linux box to 
> another, get SSH working, then on the server do "vncserver :2 -geometry 
> 1024x768 -depth 8" and on the client "vncviewer -via <server hostname> 
> localhost:1". When done you can stop the server with "vncserver 
> -kill :1" on the server. I would think that using Windows as the client 
> would be similar, though the client command may differ slightly.
> 
> On Tuesday 08 August 2006 08:01, David Stout wrote:
> 
>>I would like to access my Linux box from work. At home I am running
>>SuSe 10.1 with a linksys router. At work I am on Win XP Pro. What is
>>the best way to accomplish this. Do I need to forward any ports?
>>
>>David Stout
>>Systems Programmer
>>Regency Homes
>>
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